Eve Kiiler (b. 1960) is a photo artist with a diverse background. In 1986 she graduated the interior architecture speciality at the Estonian State Art Institute, but has since been an active artist, curator and teacher, known as an active supporter and spokesperson for the medium of photography. As an artist, she finds her material from the public space, observing the changes in the urban space and the visitors in museums and other exhibition venues.
A number of her photographs of exhibition-goers were taken with a slow exposure time so that the moving people are merely blurs on the image. Time flows at different speeds for people and things made by man – on the backdrop of timeless architecture visitors become like ants scurrying around restlessly. We tend to overlook the presence of the photographer at an event, but in the series “Looking Through Windows” (2016), Kiiler becomes one ant among many speeding by the buildings and monuments in a city. Besides the scene seen through the lens of the camera, the reflections off the windowpanes clue us into space and the person behind the camera.
